From 1965 and The Soupy Sales Show, Pookie the Lion (Frank Nastase) lip-synchs "Mumbles" (by Clark Terry and Oscar Peterson).
A coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded to the first reader who gleans that clip's relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
Best unintelligible or misinterpreted rock n roll songs of the last 60 years?
ReplyDeleteBest and worst jazz-inflected/infected songs in pop era?
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In the interest of fairness, and to prevent anybody's head from exploding tomorrow, I should confess that the clip's relation to tomorrow's theme might charitably be described as a real stretch.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to work "Your Lyin' Eyes" in somehow but I know that in this space Eagles references are, as James Brown might say, a bridge too far.
ReplyDelete"Blink your eyes, Pook!"
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Tribute songs to Barbara Eden? I don’t know of any but surely there must be some!
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